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Beyond content analysis: Detecting targeted ads via distributed counting
Costas Iordanou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Juan Miguel Carrascosa +3
Being able to check whether an online advertisement has been targeted is essential for resolving privacy controversies and implementing in practice data protection regulations like…
Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media
Despoina Chatzakou, Ilias Leontiadis, Jeremy Blackburn +4
Cyberbullying and cyberaggression are increasingly worrisome phenomena affecting people across all demographics. More than half of young social media users worldwide have been expo…
Clash of the Trackers: Measuring the Evolution of the Online Tracking Ecosystem
Konstantinos Solomos, Panagiotis Ilia, Sotiris Ioannidis +1
Websites are constantly adapting the methods used, and intensity with which they track online visitors. However, the wide-range enforcement of GDPR since one year ago (May 2018) fo…
No More Chasing Waterfalls: A Measurement Study of the Header Bidding Ad-Ecosystem
Michalis Pachilakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Evangelos P. Markatos +1
In recent years, Header Bidding (HB) has gained popularity among web publishers, challenging the status quo in the ad ecosystem. Contrary to the traditional waterfall standard, HB…
YourAdvalue: Measuring Advertising Price Dynamics without Bankrupting User Privacy
Michalis Pachilakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Nikolaos Laoutaris +2
The Real Time Bidding (RTB) protocol is by now more than a decade old. During this time, a handful of measurement papers have looked at bidding strategies, personal information flo…
A Self-Attentive Emotion Recognition Network
Harris Partaourides, Kostantinos Papadamou, Nicolas Kourtellis +2
Modern deep learning approaches have achieved groundbreaking performance in modeling and classifying sequential data. Specifically, attention networks constitute the state-of-the-a…
Disturbed YouTube for Kids: Characterizing and Detecting Inappropriate Videos Targeting Young Children
Kostantinos Papadamou, Antonis Papasavva, Savvas Zannettou +5
A large number of the most-subscribed YouTube channels target children of a very young age. Hundreds of toddler-oriented channels on YouTube feature inoffensive, well-produced, and…